pmh wrote:The Nord 4 Lead is certainly on the wants list, but I'm thinking sub £100 units at the moment, just for a mess about.

Kind regards,

Phil

Sub £100 ? Well okay then i grabbed myself the Emu XL-1 the other week on Ebay for £87. These are cool little 1u racks with great sounds. The filters on the EMU units are great too. Have a look at them on Ebay i'm sure they come up regular.

I'm flogging a TX81Z if you're interested. Otherwise, I think dabbling with your existing U-110 should show results, especially if you pick up a couple of the sound cards for it. It could be argued that these days they're totally obsolete, but it's quite simple to program when you spend a little time with it. I didn't like the Proteus FX much, I found it too plasticky-sounding. The piano on the 110 is quite nice and you can fake some Mellotron patches with some judicious combinations of sounds and a phaser and crappy compressor.

How about a cheap old sampler? Should add something else to the table.

nathanscribe wrote:I'm flogging a TX81Z if you're interested. Otherwise, I think dabbling with your existing U-110 should show results, especially if you pick up a couple of the sound cards for it. It could be argued that these days they're totally obsolete, but it's quite simple to program when you spend a little time with it. I didn't like the Proteus FX much, I found it too plasticky-sounding. The piano on the 110 is quite nice and you can fake some Mellotron patches with some judicious combinations of sounds and a phaser and crappy compressor.

How about a cheap old sampler? Should add something else to the table.